Blue straw flower (Catananche caerulea) Strooy Bloeme. / Ptarmica Austriaca. / Immortelle. (title on object), Blue straw flower. Numbered top right: 259. Bottom right the Latin name and a later annotation in Dutch. Part of the third album with drawings of flowers and plants. Tenth of twelve albums with drawings of animals, birds and plants known around 1600, commissioned by Emperor Rudolf II. With explanations in Dutch, Latin and French, Anselmus Boetius de Boodt, 1596 - 1610, paper, watercolor (paint), deck paint, chalk, ink, pen, h 222 mm × w 155 mm

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Blue straw flower (Catananche caerulea) Strooy Bloeme. / Ptarmica Austriaca. / Immortelle. (title on object), Blue straw flower. Numbered top right: 259. Bottom right the Latin name and a later annotation in Dutch. Part of the third album with drawings of flowers and plants. Tenth of twelve albums with drawings of animals, birds and plants known around 1600, commissioned by Emperor Rudolf II. With explanations in Dutch, Latin and French, Anselmus Boetius de Boodt, 1596 - 1610, paper, watercolor (paint), deck paint, chalk, ink, pen, h 222 mm × w 155 mm

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